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...Stella Kasprowicz, operator of a Newark, N.J. delicatessen, announced that her grey cat, Tiger, and her dog, Spotty, were sharing their bed near her stove with a large white...
...move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching up out of a mass of brick and timbers . . ." and very little else of the sth Battalion. But the British tanks, "their commanders standing like conquerors in their open turrets," rumble through, towards Germany...
Borculo's villagers remembered, too, that after the wind died down, they had needed help badly, and help had come from many quarters. Now, they thought, it was their turn to help. Around a big potbellied stove in Harry Tijdink's tavern, an "Aid Warren Committee" promptly met to talk it over. "At least," said Drost, "we can show our sympathy in something more than words." "Right," agreed Farmer Jan Dave, as the campaign got under way. "Our help won't amount to much. But the nice thing is that it brings us all together...
...chilly Wiesbaden home last week, Walter Gieseking, one of the five greatest living pianists,* huddled close to a small iron stove. He wrote a statement for the German press: "The German people may not understand what has happened in New York . . . They might think all America was demonstrating." But, in his opinion, "the demonstrators were only a small minority, just excited people...
...Wiener considers the most startling (and ominous) development in human evolution. Engines and production machines replace human muscles; control mechanisms replace human brains. Even a thermostat thinks, after a fashion. It acts like a man who decides that the room is too cold and puts more coal in the stove...